OT: Valentine’s Day - How will you celebrate your MGoSweetheart?

Submitted by Blau on February 14th, 2024 at 9:12 AM

Yeah, so I woke up this morning and completely forgot it’s Valentine’s Day. You know, that annual made-up holiday for spouses to say “I Love You” through cheesy greeting cards, over-priced bouquets of flowers and cheap chocolate.

So as I fend off other guilty and otherwise forgetful significant others at the flower shops during the lunch hour, I’m wondering how others plan to celebrate a day that should be outlawed in all 49 states besides Ohio as I believe Ryan Day needs all the love he can get after losing to Michigan 3x in a row.

First, will you succumb to the pressure of Hallmark, Godiva, and 1-800-Flowers this year?

Or is Valentine’s Day just another day on the calendar in your household?

Lastly, what would you like your Valentine’s Day card or message say to Ryan Day/OSU fanbase? If you can afford it, I hear the team would like something gold as they haven’t received that type of thing in a while…

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mGrowOld

February 14th, 2024 at 10:09 AM ^

Valentine's Day is the 2nd most important holiday in my home behind someone's birthday so I got my wife a nice card and had one of these made up with our names in it.  She's coming up to my office so we can have lunch together then tonight we'll go out for sushi.

I love her very much and it's a big deal to her so it's a big deal to me.

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HAIL 2 VICTORS

February 14th, 2024 at 11:36 AM ^

MGrow please share the link where you had that created...well done.

 

1A. - Birthday:  Persian tradition you wake up CRACK OF DAWN singing happy birthday in Farce waking the person from a dead sleep with balloons in hand rubbing the sand out of your eyes and still adjusting to the bright light just turned on.  I hate this tradition, but it is important to her, so I grit my teeth and carry on.

1.B - Christmas Day: Also, half Colombian (Christian) so of course we combine our family traditions we both brought into the marriage and make for the most ridiculous and decadent experience possible.  Persians being Persians take yet another opportunity to be ostentatious.

1.C - Valentines Day:  This is mostly on THE MAN in the family further complicated having (3) Daughters.  Wife is woken to a card.  Flowers.  Time together before work.  All through grammar school I would alter business meetings and trips to ensure that each child receives a full bouquet of flowers and ballons at school and taken out to lunch as their fellow classmates look on jealously. This went on through High School only a "gift" was also incorporated as they took on the role of Junior Wives setting expectations for prospective future husbands. 

Very early in our marriage my wife and I attended a Marriage Seminar where we were asked to write down on a scale of 1-10 how you would rate your spouse and how your spouse would rate you.  Talk about a SUPRISE and come to Jesus' conversation.  

I also learned at that seminar from a number of invited speakers who had been married 50 years or more that if blessed to be healthy that long one of the keys they professed was having common interests, maintaining date nights forever and treating any and every occasion with importance to whom it is important too.

Also - being right is not always the most important thing in a relationship.  < This has taken me a lifetime and even more important with Children and Adult-Children.

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mGrowOld

February 14th, 2024 at 1:51 PM ^

Great write up and I 100% agree with you although in fairness it did take me two shots at the whole "husband thing" to get it right.  It does help, however, to have someone who gives 10X as much as she takes in the relationship, makes it easy to give back that's for sure.

Here's where i found it.  Etsy rules for stuff like this.  

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kehnonymous

February 14th, 2024 at 10:12 AM ^

As a hopeless romantic who still moons over my adored wife of 20+ years, I will sit down in front of my computer and ask her if she would rather I read aloud to her the 2013 Penn State Offensive UFR (the 27 for 27 game) or a Draftageddon

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drjaws

February 14th, 2024 at 10:15 AM ^

I said “Happy Valentine’s Day” to the wife last night at ~12:10 am because I knew I’d forget to today. We don’t really celebrate because it is always on a weekday and we’re too busy during the week. But also because I think it’s an asinine “holiday.”

if it’s on a weekend we’ll do a nice dinner or something. I’m getting her some candy and flowers on the way home so … there’s that.

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bassclefstef

February 14th, 2024 at 10:23 AM ^

My wife and I both don't take valentine's day super seriously, but it is an excuse to make a nice dinner and have a bit of a date night. For today, though, we both are in rehearsal with the Flint Symphony, so we're not gonna get home until 11pm (and we're driving there from two different teaching gigs, so we can't even carpool), so we're going to have said fun dinner and date night tomorrow night instead. Since we're both freelance musicians with crazy schedules, and we often work on weekends and holidays, we're not all that precious about celebrating holidays on the actual date.

For tomorrow, I got some cool cheeses at Whole Foods, and we're going to set up a cheese board as an appetizer, and then for dinner, I'm going to make steamed mussels over a white wine (or maybe dry cider?) broth with fennel, celery, shallots, and garlic, with some crusty bread for dipping.

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Perkis-Size Me

February 14th, 2024 at 10:27 AM ^

My wife and I stopped caring about this holiday a while ago. Especially after we had kids. We've been together ten years. We love each other. We already have a day dedicated to that. Its our anniversary. 

If the holiday falls on a weekend, I'll put a steak or some other nice peat of meat on the smoker and we'll have a nice meal at home. Otherwise, the day comes and goes without us even thinking about it. It honestly just feels like a made up holiday, blown up by big retail outlets and corporations as another way to suck money out of us. 

The only real thought I'm giving it today is the fact that I had to dress our kids up in something red for school, and make sure our three year old brought in a bunch of lollipops and juice boxes for his class' valentine's day party. If my kids want to enjoy it, that's fine. To me, its a pointless holiday. 

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St Joe Blues

February 14th, 2024 at 10:30 AM ^

We agreed early on that it's a made-up holiday and we weren't going to fall for this corporate attempt to buy love. But there are sometimes that I wonder if she really agreed with this sentiment or if she was just agreeing to keep the peace. It's one of those thing you never know until it blows up in your face.

This one in particular? Today's Ash Wednesday, so church tonight at 7:00. Said goodbye to the Hallelujahs on Sunday. The Kingdom is near.

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Boner Stabone

February 14th, 2024 at 10:35 AM ^

Don't celebrate Hallmark Holidays.  When we were young we would go out for dinner and get all romantic, but with 4 kids, sports, and basically dividing and conquering to get everyone where they need to be, we just don't have the energy, time, or money for it.  

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BlueKoj

February 14th, 2024 at 10:51 AM ^

Tonight, after we're both done working, the kids fend for themselves as my wife cooks (completely her choice) a great meal and we share it in our dining room. Saturday we dine at the Chop House and walk the city doing whatever we want. Probably will stop in at the M-Den. Need more gear.

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Lilking613

February 14th, 2024 at 10:56 AM ^

My wife is, unfortunately, a Spartina. So, I will pay the mortgage, truck payment, insurance, and utility bills. If she wants anything else, she'll have to get it herself. I don't swipe my card for anything green, scarlet, grey, MSU or pOSU 

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MgoHillbilly

February 14th, 2024 at 11:06 AM ^

Costco roses for the wife, pink flowers for the daughter (not the same person), with chocolate chip cookies and chocolate dipped strawberries.


No need to make things complicated.

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Wendyk5

February 14th, 2024 at 11:42 AM ^

We don't do Valentine's Day, at my urging. I don't like holidays that tell you you need to buy stuff. And the onus is mostly on guys, which is unfair. My favorite holiday is Halloween because there's lots of ways to celebrate and it doesn't exclude anyone (like single people on Valentine's Day). 

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lmgoblue1

February 14th, 2024 at 11:50 AM ^

Card and chocolate delivered upon waking up today. Off to work. Coming home tonight to cook a gourmet dinner of lobster tails and beautiful ribeye steak. Asparagus salad key lime pie. And then let Cupid do his thing.

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Romeo50

February 14th, 2024 at 11:52 AM ^

By firing Warde! Am I doing this right...hello...?

 

Card and chocolates and delaying going out until this weekend in TC. Per her instructions. It's like the wedding...just show up on time and do what you are told...portends...

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leftrare

February 14th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^

I’m in the waiting room of an outpatient surgery center.  My sweetheart is having a colonoscopy. After we’re going to Five Guys. Top that for romance, mgobloggers!

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